Download and install

  Linux

As of now the openSUSE Build Service builds are not supported. As soon as I get enough time to edit, check and upload the valid qoobar.spec, I will update the repository and this file.

  Ubuntu PPA

Ubuntu users can add this PPA repository: ppa:aleksej-novichkov/ppa. The installation process is as follows: 

> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aleksej-novichkov/ppa
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install qoobar

The supported Ubuntu versions: 18.04 (bionic), 20.04 (focal), 21.10 (impish). Other Ubuntu releases may contain outdated Qoobar packages, as they are no longer supported by PPA.

AppImage

All Linux users can download, chmod +x and run this 64-bit qoobar-1.7.0.AppImage. It has been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20.2.

Flatpack

Flatpak releases are planned for the nearest future, via flathub.

  Windows

Windows users can download the full 64-bit installer qoobar-1.7.0.exe from sourceforge.net.

Note: If you are encountering a problem with running Qoobar on Windows 7 or 8, you can perform these steps:

  1. Install the Update for Universal C Runtime
  2. Install the full Visual C++ 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022 packages
  3. If nothing previous helped, install this version, compiled with the previous Qt version (5.15)

There is also a portable version of Qoobar, build with Qt6, that can be downloaded from here. Unpack the archive and run qoobar.exe.

  Mac OS X

The Mac version of Qoobar can be downloaded from sourceforge.net.

OS/2

There is also an OS/2 version of Qoobar, maintained by Elbert Pol , you can download it from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/.

On any issues regarding this version please contact him at elbert.pol@gmail.com.

  Building Qoobar manually

Sources

The Git repository of Qoobar is https://github.com/alexnovichkov/qoobar.git. You can easily clone it with 

git clone https://github.com/alexnovichkov/qoobar.git

or with GitHub CLI:

gh repo clone alexnovichkov/qoobar

You can also download the tar.gz archive from qoobar-master.zip.

Building under Unix:
  1. Install Qt-devel >= 5.0, ffmpeg-devel, libswresample-devel, libebur128-devel, libtag1-devel, libdiscid, enca, shntool and gcc tools
  2. Download qoobar-master.zip source files and unpack the archive or clone the Qoobar repo.
  3. Go into the folder and in the console type: 
    $ qmake
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ make clean
Building under Windows:
  1. Install Qt for Windows
  2. Download qoobar-master.zip source files and unpack the archive or clone the Qoobar repo.
  3. Download/install/compile all the necessary dependencies:
    1. libdiscid
    2. libebur128
    3. libffmpeg
    4. libsparkle
    5. libtag
    6. libz
    See the src/3rdparty/*.pri files for the list of libraries.
    You also need to install flac, enca, ffmpeg executables to have the full Qoobar features.
  4. In the console go into the source folder and type: 
    > qmake
> mingw32-make
> mingw32-make clean
  5. Copy release/* files to desired location or run release/qoobar.exe

Older versions

Older versions of Qoobar can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qoobar/files